André Natal

San Francisco Bay Area United States

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André Natal is a seasoned software engineer and Member of Technical Staff based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over two decades of experience and 13 years of focused enterprise-level practice in AI, ML, and real-time systems. He has led production-grade projects across industries—from streaming media and telecoms to finance and oil & gas—building low-latency distributed architectures, voice AI, and scalable cloud platforms. Recent roles include principal ML engineering positions where he built RAG pipelines, fine-tuned foundation models, and shipped vector search and conversational AI solutions. At Mozilla he helped deliver flagship speech and WebRTC products (Firefox Voice, Deep Speech, Common Voice) and contributed open-source work integrating speech interfaces and HTTPS/network tooling for projects like WebThings Gateway and Appmaker. He blends deep systems, networking, and embedded expertise with hands-on ML modeling and speech tech, comfortable moving from microcontrollers and WebRTC to LLM fine-tuning. Known for solving complex, high-compliance problems, he pairs research-driven approaches with pragmatic production engineering.

13 years of coding experience

22 years of employment as a software developer

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Anhembi Morumbi

Dropout, Engineering, Dropout, Engineering at FEI - Faculdade de Engenharia Industrial

SCPD, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, SCPD, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science at Stanford University

English, Portuguese, Spanish

Github Skills (18)

javascript10

web-speech-api10

expressjs10

api-design10

ui-components10

polymer10

http10

user-interface10

html10

rest-api10

nodejs10

json9

css9

websocket8

dockers7

Programming languages (15)

JavaNginxC++BikeshedRustCMakefileHandlebars

Github contributions (5)

WebThingsIO/gateway

Apr 2017 - Jul 2018

WebThings Gateway - a self-hosted web application for monitoring and controlling a building over the web

Role in this project:

Full-stack Developer

Contributions:42 commits, 52 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 2 months

Contributions summary:André implemented features related to subdomain registration, SSL certificate management, and HTTPS redirection for the WebThings Gateway. They integrated settings pages with both frontend and backend components. The user also worked on speech command integration, including setting up the speech interface and integrating it with the API, enhancing user interaction through voice control. Additionally, they contributed to the project's infrastructure by configuring HTTPS and modifying configurations for better network handling.

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mozilla-appmaker/appmaker

Aug 2014 - Aug 2014

Appmaker was an exploration in making app authoring available to non-developers

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:14 commits in 4 days

Contributions summary:André primarily contributed to the development of a voice recognition component within the Appmaker project. Their work involved implementing the HTML structure, JavaScript logic, and event handling for the component. They integrated the Web Speech API and Polymer to create interactive voice input features, including methods for starting, stopping, and setting grammars for speech recognition, ultimately enhancing the user interface with voice interaction capabilities.

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